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Elise-Andree Guerette

Evaluation of high-precision analytical techniques for measuring atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O)

I am an Atmospheric Chemist who has recently joined the Major Greenhouse Gases team (GASLAB) at the Aspendale, VIC site. https://research.csiro.au/acc/capabilities/gaslab/ I started using R as part of my PhD and I was quickly hooked. Coding gives me both extreme joy and deep frustration, depending on whether my code works :) I used R throughout my postdoc and I am now keen to use my R skills in my new role.

Felicity McEnnulty

Monitoring endangered Spotted Handfish populations

I have a background in taxonomic identification of marine invertebrates and plankton. This requires working with data sets of species data and associated environmental data, spatial details and imagery. I have been involved in fieldwork using SCUBA diving to survey for introduced marine pests in Australian ports and to conduct underwater visual counts for species monitoring. I have used Excel, Access and SQL databases to manage data and have some experience in coding using Oracle to manage data and and R to produce graphs.

Geetha Perera

Screening GM canola for tolerance to aluminium

I am Geetha Perera, a Research Technician with Agriculture and Food based in Canberra. At present I am a part of the Soil Constraint research team in the Crops Program. I had no experience in R before Data School, tried to self-learn but never happened. I have been using Excel extensively to record, summarise and visualise data mostly using bar graphs. My main aim in Data School was to learn coding with R to replace the repetitive steps that I do with data sets in Excel. Data school FOCUS was a great learning experience for me and I am amazed to see how helpful R is for tidying up and visualising data which allows us seeing an in-depth picture.

Jose Barrero

Transcriptomic analysis of high-oil transgenic cowpea

My name is Jose Barrero and I am a Research Scientist in Agriculture and Food. I recently started leading the Cowpea Team in Black Mountain. I have not done any coding before but I generate large datasets that need complex analysis, so that is why I decided to learn a bit of R and to come to Data School as part of my Julius Career Award activities.

Shirleen Prasad

Genetics of stress- & domestication-related traits in Bactrocera tryoni

My name is Shirleen Prasad. I am a 3rd year Macquarie University PhD student based at CSIRO. My PhD project investigates the genetic basis of reduced stress resistance in domesticated Queensland fruit flies (Q-fly), Bactrocera tryoni. Before joining Data School, I mostly used excel for data analysis and could only perform basic statistical analysis in R. Gaining competence in R through this course has given me confidence in using R independently.

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Ryegrass, a potential source of gluten-like proteins

Hello! my name is Sophia, I am a molecular biologist working in proteomics, currently a Postdoctoral fellow. Before Data School, I coded on Macro (Excel). I used to spend a lot of time cleaning and tidying protein data, I always felt like I could do it faster if I had programming skills. These weeks learning R have changed my daily work. The possible things that we could do have opened my mind to a new perspective of my research.

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Tina Rathjen

Investigating flowering time in wheat under controlled environment conditions

My name is Tina Rathjen. I have been working as a molecular biologist for over 25 years on both animal and plant systems. The last 10 years I have worked at CSIRO and have been involved on several projects investigating different aspects of wheat physiology and growth. This has included carrying out laboratory, glasshouse and field experiments and previously data generated has been entered and analysed using Excel. Prior to Data School I did not know how to code or use R. Data School FOCUS has opened my eyes to a whole new world of data analysis and I hope to use this as a starting point to learn and apply new and exciting methodologies.

Trijntje Hughes

Summer is coming to OzWheat

I joined CSIRO over twenty years ago and have worked on many different projects mostly in wheat and barley. I love working in the laboratory combined with field and glasshouse work. My work involves varied aspects of seed biology, including seed dormancy, seed composition and environmental stresses. Before data school I would enter data either in FieldPrime or Excel and all my data analyses and visualisation was done in Excel. I had no experience writing code at all.